Sentences with phrase «opaque layers of»

She draws out the shapes with pencil and begins to build with color, eventually shifting to opaque layers of oil paint employing trompe l'oeil trickery and overlays.

Either square or rectangular in format, the paintings were constructed by laying down (mostly) opaque layers of paint and then scraping away one layer from another by use of a squeegee, as in Little Three for Two: Red, Yellow, Blue (1976), or exposing under layers by peeling away tape.

He reconsiders the figure and background several times, often changing them with successive, opaque layers of paint.

Unlike Barnett Newman, whose flat opaque layers of even reds, blues, whites and browns emphasize the flatness of the surface — after all it's a two - dimensional space, Francis draws with a combination of translucent, semi-opaque and opaque pigments.

Titan Opaque layers of clouds prevented Voyager from seeing Titan's surface during its 1980 flyby.

Use a roller to apply a flat, opaque layer of paint, then try using newspaper, card, feathers or sponges to drag paint across the surface, or icing bags and syringes to squeeze out your paint in lines.

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For those who have wandered the many courtyards and chambers of the Kabbalists» house of splendors, Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction provides an always - appropriate reminder that no matter how clear each level of exposition, as layers accumulate, the window grows opaque.

I halved the recipe and used one can of full fat coconut milk (must be refrigerated overnight, with the white opaque layer scraped out and used) in place of the whole milk.

But as you get to the end of the clarified part, you'll start to see that third opaque, white layer — the milk solids.

There's probably another lobe, hidden behind thick layers of opaque dust.

Innovative prospecting techniques like three - dimensional sonar, which emits sound waves from multiple angles, help discovery crews see through opaque and shifting layers of geological salt to pinpoint oil hidden four miles or more beneath the Gulf of Mexico and off the Atlantic coasts of South America and Africa.

«The X-ray data suggest there are extended layers of the planet's atmosphere that are transparent to optical light but opaque to X-rays,» said co-author Jurgen Schmitt of Hamburger Sternwarte in Hamburg, Germany.

The visible surface of the Sun, the photosphere, is the layer below which the Sun becomes opaque to visible light.

I will also say that all of these colors just need two layers and they are completely opaque!

The bodice is opaque and covered with a single layer of intricately latched lace.

I was stoked I had room to layer them over my fav, fully opaque Zella leggings (currently 25 % of!).

From there, it's as simple as filling in your polka dots with a metallic sharpie — you can add - on an extra layer of metallic marker after the first layer dries if you'd like the color to be a bit more opaque.

Otherwise, layer a pair of opaque tights underneath for a look worthy of second glances no matter the season.

Printed in high definition with an added layer of opaque white for a glistening effect, this work of art is a glossy decorator accent.

If you're starting to feel that fall chill, grab a pair of opaque black tights, layered under a fabulous pair of heeled Chelsea ankle boots.

This dress is constructed with an opaque under dress topped with a single layer of sheer chiffon.

This polyester - nylon skirt has an opaque lining, a layer of tulle and then the mesh - embroidered outer shell which has a more literal pattern than what I'm used to seeing from this brand.

Flat opaque fields with frayed edges mingle with translucent layered patches of colour.

I must admit that I had great fun painting the tall ivy clad tree in the foreground, layering the various tones of green dry - brush, and then picking out the detail with opaque, dry - brushed lemon yellow.

For his first ever public exhibition in NYC, Young will paint 288 panels of plywood in alternating colors of red, pink, orange and yellow fluorescent, finishing with an opaque coat of black paint to conceal the bright layers underneath.

Gaitonde's highly individual technique involved multiple layers of paint, some translucent, others opaque.

Next, the foreground was built up with layers of various washes to create the light, shadows, boulders and stones, and the brighter areas of foliage picked out with opaque cadmium lemon.

Colors run under an opaque layer, with the mute quality of abstraction for Jasper Johns — and then the two largest paintings turn out to be a diptych, multiplying drawing once more.

Through the final layer, chalky and opaque, outlines and shapes laid down in earlier versions are visible in relief, and what is left is a small, orderly piece of evidence of the painter's veiled process.

Atomized structures of thick opaque paint form planar layers that are transparent to the passages underneath them, giving the sense of perceiving two or more wholly intact images at the same time.

Instead of the translucent washes of faint color seen during earlier periods, Martin experimented with a palette of muted greys, layering paint to create robust, opaque surfaces that serve as a bridge between her early and later works.

Instead layers of different densities (transparent, semi-translucent and opaque) make up the final vision where the monochromatic grays, quieted greens, waxed whites and subdued blues read like a richly imbued nordic landscape that fools with its chromatic monotony only to reveal itself later.

With light passing through the translucent collaged elements, the works reveal layers of construction, while opaque elements obscure parts of the image.

His layers of color range from translucent to opaque, but always retain a striking luminosity.

Formally, Smith's work has an opaque aspect to it created through the process of using an oil bar with a blowtorch to build up layers of material, giving his work a sense of fullness.

The gouache drawings consist of thin layers of overlapping colors, achieving by a different manner the same opaque - yet - translucent quality that marks the resin pieces.

Layers of translucent brushstrokes and opaque washes give texture and depth to shallow domestic interiors and surreal landscapes.

By using handmade tools to create a pattern - like effect, Beraud creates an opaque visual field which focuses the eye on the layered parts (failures in their own right) and on the complete wholeness of the collective image.

The accumulation of packed snow in the concrete's seams made opaque grids, grids that were again defined by planes of less dense, more transparent layers of snow that covered the higher surfaces.

In contrast to Schiel's opaque layers pierced by windows, Fekete uses a latticework of juxtaposed imagery.

Painters have often used variations of a single colour as underpainting before applying opaque body - colour or layers of more or less translucent glazes.

With opaque colors and the layering of whites, Rhodes» work complicates ideas of frontal forms in painting while at the same time denying real references.

The results are sumptuous abstract encaustic paintings that utilize a minimal color palette and repetitive imagery, thick layers of translucent and opaque wax, paper prepared with batik markings and hand rubbed oil stick combined to create multi dimensional panels.

All are digital vinyl prints and, Bowen informs us, are painted over again and again with layers of opaque grey removable ink.

The paintings in the show are all constructed with four layers on top of a dyed canvas, two stained and two thickly painted opaque layers.

Alexander writes: «Keltie's paintings are built with many layers of intersecting translucent and opaque matrixes in various media, including spray (oil) paint, acrylic and oil pastel, forming fabulous amalgams of color, shape and dynamism.

The visual dynamic emerges from layering multiple runs of transparent and opaque colors on top of each other.

Throughout, subtly - inflected layerings of oil paint result in densely optical areas of flat opaque color.»

After coating them with as many as eight layers of translucent or opaque paints, he binds the initial blobs onto the surface, producing gorgeous, intriguing, collagelike works that gleam with luscious hues and palpable paint.

His use of imaginary imagery forms, figure - ground interchange and the integration of layers, both opaque and translucent, record a compilation of thoughts.